13-year-old friends from Utah died after overdosing on new synthetic opioid 'Pink' – Daily Mail https://t.co/hJbtegm1D7 pic.twitter.com/hUTV444QJ8 — Healthy World (@healthy_wrld) November 4, 2016Ryan Ainsworth and Grant Seaver, both 13, were students at Treasure Mountain Junior High School in Park City, Utah. They were best friends who shared the hobbies of adventurous Utah teenagers — spending afternoons on skis, dirt bikes or skateboards. On Thursday, the Utah Medical Examiner’s Office announced the results of toxicology tests: Acute drug intoxication was to blame, Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said in a statement. The chemical culprit was an opioid so obscure it did not have an official name, just a designation, U-47700. Until recently, the synthetic opioid U-47700 was not much more than a curiosity, one of many dead-ends in the hunt for superior painkillers.

Source: Washington Post November 04, 2016 09:34 UTC